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Exactly. What are they expecting people to use them for? It's not as if they have any uses other than destruction, either of property or of life.

"This website looks best on Microsoft Edge at a resolution of 800x600"

Tell me you develop with modern languages without telling me you develop with modern languages.

You say this like it's a bad thing?

Try linting perl, or bash.

If you're already writing Perl/Bash scripts then it would probably not take you long to write a git hook to check the beginning of each line of source to check if there's a space or a tab character and preventing the commit if the wrong one is found. Crude and far from perfect, but still better than nothing.

if you work on a modern JS/Python/C# project, whatever, whitespace is going to be autoformatted, so the tabs vs spaces debate does not matter AT ALL.

It does though. If you read the original article then you'd know that the advantage of tabs is that everyone can choose exactly how deep their tabstops are, which is an objective benefit over spaces.

It'll do things!

Spaces and tabs are mixed from one line to the next

This is a solved problem: Enforce linting before committing using something like Git Hooks / Husky.

Have you ever tried to read an important technical diagram in ASCII art aligned with tabs by different people with different IDE settings?

No, because we live in the present and use proper tools for diagrams. SVG diagrams tend to be common nowadays. I'm aware you can't read them raw, but realistically the intersection between people who need to read important technical diagrams and people who don't have access to a web browser is vanishingly small (dare I say nonexistent?)

I haven't seen any labelled NSFW. In fact, I luckily haven't seen any at all. Though if I were to take a guess: the reason such discussions aren't marked NSFW is because the people who take part in them don't care about anyone but themselves and their own opinions. Asking them to be considerate and correctly flair their posts is meaningless as they are seemingly incapable of considering others.

I'm not sure what any of that had to do with what I said before though.

it centers employers as our source of social standards, which is a position of extreme submission to capitalist control of social spaces.

Have you considered the possibility that the general public's social standards have been inherited by offices, and not the other way round?

The "work" aspect of the phrase makes sense because it's generally understood that a great many people browse various websites in an office where it's easy for other people to glance over and see what's on your screen.
You'd be ostracised (or even fired) in most workplaces if caught viewing content we currently mark as NSFW, much like you would be in any other public place like a library or a park (though people seeing your screen in these locations may be less frequent).
Work is chosen for the phrase because a) it's the most likely place you'll be when viewing content, and b) the place you'll get in the most trouble for doing so.
Knowing this, it makes sense.

It implicitly asks posters to tag their posts according to their understanding of other people's employers' opinions

I think you're taking the acronym a bit too literally here. Plus I already explained why it it is the way it is above.

In any case, what else would you have everyone call it? "Content you wouldn't want people looking over your shoulder and seeing"? Or perhaps "media that you would be embarrassed if your phone blasted it in public"? It's a bit long winded, don't you think?

I'd love tags to be added. I do have a few extra ideas about them:

• Separate the NSFW concept into NSFW (as in porn / questionable content) and NSFL (gore / generally disgusting things).
• CW should be different to NSFW/NSFL as some people may not want to see certain content that doesn't necessarily fall into these categories - e.g. articles mentioning abuse or other potentially (for lack of a better word) triggering content.
• Spoiler tags should be, as the name describes, used only for content that spoils the plot of a movie/book/game/etc.

I thought it was generally accepted that porn was NSFW and gore/ick was NSFL.

you can never trust how someone else has their tab configured

Why on earth would I care how someone else has their editor configured? It's none of my business, and none of yours either.

Rust's unique design also leads to many design patterns not normally seen in most other languages.

I've heard quite a few people talk about how good they realised Options were, and that they now try to use that same pattern in other languages like Python. It really does teach you new tricks!

It's perfectly acceptable to not want to use a certain tool.

You would be the kind of person on SO to reply to a question saying "how do I do A" with "nobody does A, do B instead". That's not constructive.

It's almost like Android fans are fans of the OS and the features it provides instead of who made it.

If they deleted/privated it right after uploading it that suggests it might have contained some factual inaccuracies or something of the sort.

Wrong race that would upset my parents

Your parents aren't going to date your partner, so their opinions on her race mean absolutely nothing. It's like going to a restaurant with a friend and they tell you you can't order salmon because they don't like it. It's not their food, so what they say doesn't matter since they're not eating it.

Feeling that my interest in the other person is not genuine and that I only see her as a sexual object

This felt a little too real to read. I know that feeling, and it's not nice. I got no advice here, just letting you know you're not alone in feeling it.

I have this dreadful feeling that I missed out on something important in life

The best part about life is that you get to define what's important to you. Some people may find meaning in having a family, but it's not the only objective way of finding meaning/purpose. You could find joy in creating things, exploring the world, even just working. There's no secret formula or shortcut to finding it, and there's definitely no hard rules about what it can be. I hope this helps you feel better.

I got my last 3 phones used, all were at a great discount, and all lasted about as long as you'd expect a new phone to.

I'll continue buying used until new prices become reasonable again, and even then I will still probably buy used because it's cheaper and helps combat ewaste (if only a little).

I've reinstalled both Linux and Windows on the same machine a few weeks ago and it was considerably easier and faster to install Linux. It also had less problems post-install too.

Changing the UI elements isn't the reason why Android exists. The purpose of a phone's OS is to act like a phone. Both Android and iOS do this perfectly well. If they didn't, nobody would use them. Everything else they can do is just a nice bonus.

Don't get me wrong, I much prefer Android because of those features (plus I hate walled gardens), but I think your usage of the word "purpose" might be a bit of a stretch here.

What? Cars and trucks are built for different purposes. Do you think Android phones and iPhones are built for different purposes?

They're not really that different. They both have apps which you open and use to do different things. In a car that would likely be to communicate with people, listen to music, or to navigate.